Prudential plc, through its subsidiaries, provides a range of retail financial products and services, and asset management services in Asia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and Africa.
The company offers health and protection, as well as other life insurance products, including participating business; mutual funds; and personal lines property and casualty insurance, group insurance, and institutional fund management services. It also provides fixed annuities, such as fixed interest rate, and fixed index and immediate annuities; variable annuities; institutional products comprising guaranteed investment contracts and funding agreements; and savings and investment products. In addition, the company offers long-term products, which include pension products and annuities; conventional annuities, including level, fixed increase, and RPI annuities; onshore and offshore bonds; corporate, individual pension, and income drawdown products; and investment funds.
Prudential plc provides its products and services through an agency sales force together with various banks, brokers, local partners, independent insurance agents, independent broker-dealers, regional broker-dealers, wirehouses, credit unions, and other financial institutions.
The company was founded in 1848 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.